Passions and Complexes Between the Couch and the Screen article: Maria Vassileva In September 2015, the Sofia City Art Gallery opened the first retrospective of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Bulgaria. It sparked strong emotions—ranging from absolute admiration to total rejection. In fact, the rejection was not directed at the works themselves but at the figure…
FORTRESS – FESTUNG exhibition in the space of the Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art article: Lilyana Karadjova What are the fortresses of the modern world and how do we penetrate their matter and significance? This pressing question which has taken on a new and specifically European meaning was raised in the…
Alexander Valchev New Life, 2016 Goethe Institute, Sofia 10 December 2015 – 30 January 2016 When I was invited to hold an exhibition at the Goethe Institute, I started reflecting on a principle I have always believed in—that an exhibition should be connected in some way to the place where it is presented. In…
Scrap Opera (series of 4 photographs), 2011, inkjet print on rag paper, 40 x 30 cm Scrap Opera This series of photographs depicts a couple of squatters in a ruined Victorian mansion. An open-air kitchen is a stage for obscure performance: a pregnant woman with horns, a man in a dirty morning robe and sleeping mask,…
Nadejda Pavlova, series Algorithm of Fears (2016) ALGORITHM OF FEARS article: Nadejda Pavlova “Which is better: to be loved or to be feared? The answer to this question is that it would be best to enjoy both, but if one must choose, it is better for a ruler to be feared than to be loved.”…
Reflected Observation article: Maria Wasilewska For the master’s degree graduation exhibition of photography students at the National Academy of Arts, Yoana Angelova presents a series of photographs under the evocative title Reflections. This series once again demonstrates the younger generation’s interest in formal experimentation as a medium that revitalizes the modernist idea of “newness.” The…
